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Genteel rhetoric : writing high culture in nineteenth-century Boston /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Broaddus, Dorothy C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1999]
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
American literature > Massachusetts > Boston > History and criticism.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 19th century.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Massachusetts > Boston.
Language and culture > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 19th century.
Unitarians > Massachusetts > Boston > Intellectual life.
Boston (Mass.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, > 1823-1911 > Technique.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1809-1894 > Technique.
Lowell, James Russell, > 1819-1891 > Technique.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Technique.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: rhetoric and culture
  • Teaching and preaching culture and character
  • Authorizing high culture, authorizing self
  • Elevation and degradation
  • Rhetoric and war
  • Works cited
  • Index .